Internationally known during her lifetime, Laura Battiferra (1523-89) was a gifted and prolife poet in Renaissance Florence. The author of nearly 400 sonnets, Battiferra, who was married to the prominent sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati, traversed an elite literary and artistic network, circulating her verse in a complex and intellectually fecund exchange with some of the most illustrious figures in Italian history. In this anthology Victoria Kirkham gathers Battiferra's most essential writing, including newly discovered poems, to provide modern readers with a valuable social chronicle of sixteenth-century Italy and the courtly culture of the Counter-Reformation.
- ISBN10 128112530X
- ISBN13 9781281125309
- Publish Date 1 January 2007 (first published 15 May 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Pages 493
- Language English